such a long, long time to be gone

so last night while having a few well deserved beers post train, I sat in my bar listening to Robert Hunter and thinking about his impact...….I seemed to remember a story about him singing on a rooftop in lower Manhattan in the days after 9/11.....I wondered if I had imagined the whole thing or if someone had told me an urban legend....thankfully after an exhausted search I found this excerpt from a Robert Hunter Journal / Blog.....it made my day, this is how I choose to remember the man that penned the soundtrack of my life.

Robert Hunter Journal Entry
September 24, 2001

After dark fell, I sat alone on the roof, fifteen stories high, of a building in Soho commanding a panoramic and unobstructed view of the skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan and the lights of the bridges. I had my guitar in hand and felt moved to sing "Terrapin Station" to the City. While I sang, rain began falling - I stood and edged around to the other side of the roof, still singing, to the corner of the roof facing the World Trade Center, some fifteen blocks away, where the sky is bright with floodlight illuminating the work of the excavation crew. A great plume of smoke continues to rise from the site of the devastation. As I sang, a powerful wind blew up very suddenly - wind so strong it threatened to rip my guitar out of my hands - reminding me of the storm in which I first composed the words I now sang. I wondered if I was involved in some kind of sacrilege, singing like this in the face of all that had gone down - the wind roaring increasingly louder and stronger, as though filled with spirits, as though trying to blow me over, make me stop. I kept singing until the end, repeating the "hold away despair," expressing all the sorrow I felt for the lost loved ones and for the healing of this magnificent and resilient City. I hope it helped. Helped me, anyway.

Robert (Burns) Hunter

Rest In Peace to the man behind the music, I’m too disappointed to elaborate, I’ll compose myself for tomorrow.......such words are hard to come by.....for now I leave you with some Ripple

It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken
Perhaps they're better left unsung
I don't know, don't really care

Let there be songs to fill the air

Let it be known there is a fountain
That was not made by the hands of men

Perhaps his best yet

President Trump gives us so many wildly entertaining and funny tweets that it’s difficult to rank them, but this one from yesterday is my current favorite.....Greta Thunberg is a 16 yr old tightly wound, totally unhinged climate maniac and she rode across the Atlantic on a sailboat to address the UN ....google clips of her speech, she spews venom like the kid from the exorcist....and so after her speech the Commander And Chief released this tweet. “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!”


Classic, classic, classic 

just wondering

so much ado was made about the Mets not being able to wear NYPD / FDNY hats on 9/11.....not to worry, they WILL next year....want to know why ? $$$$$$….NIKE has a contract to make the MLB uniforms starting next year.....AND Nike has a contract with the Deblasio administration to use the FDNY, NYPD, SDNY logos and trademarks and sell gear.....put 2 and 2 together and you spell greed.....somehow MLB will have a change of heart I suspect...…….what remains to be seen....and maybe our favorite Batallion Chief can weigh in.....does NIKE have EXCLUSIVE rights to these logos...and if Yes, does this mean a cease and desist letter from corporate will be sent to all the firehouse to stop printing their own T-shirts that include the FDNY shield, Logo, etc etc  ? ? time will tell.....but mark my words....next 9/11 will be brought to you from the America Hating scumbags from Oregon and probably every team will have a special NY edition hat

Two things I hate

Are racists and niggas......that’s an old joke that you probably can’t tell at the water cooler anymore.....but as I read the paper today I am reminded of it....from the “ you can’t make this stuff up department “ President Trump awarded the second medal of Freedom to a former NBA Star in a month, and yet he is still being labeled a racist....you can look it up, Bob Cousy and now Jerry West have both received the prestigious award.